Title Fictions of authority : women writers and narrative voice / Susan Sniader Lanser

Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [1992]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres Summary Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"--Including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig--she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/08/2021) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières. swd Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Authorship -- Sex differences Women and literature -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- France Narration (Rhetoric) English fiction -- History and criticism American fiction -- History and criticism French fiction -- History and criticism Women and literature. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist. French fiction English literature -- Women authors English fiction American literature -- Women authors American fiction American fiction -- Women authors Authorship -- Sex differences English fiction -- Women authors French fiction -- Women authors Narration (Rhetoric) Women and literature Frauenliteratur Erzähler Erzähltechnik Vrouwelijke auteurs. Vertelkunst. English-speaking countries France USA Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019725866 ISBN 9781501723094 150172309X 9781501723087 1501723081

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